The Power Of Nature

Blizzard in Brooklyn, NYC 12/26/2010 - 22.5 °F Heavy Snow Freezing Fog

Subway Ride

October 2010

Subway Ride

Sub·way a. An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
London calls it the Underground.
In Paris, le Metro.
In New York City it`s called the Train or Subway.
Let`s take a short trip from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Yes, you can take the subway over a bridge.
Brooklyn
The East River
Manhattan



music: Contusion by Stevie Wonder
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Nuova Compagnia di Canto Poplare - Jesce Sole

Jesce Sole

Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole.
Ciento cinquanta
tutta la notte canta
canta Viola, lu masto de scola.
Masto masto,
mannancenne priesto
ca scenne masto Tieste
cu' lanza e cu' spada
cu l'auciello accumpagnato.
Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole.
Sona sona zampugnella
ca t'accatto la gonnella,
la gonnella de scarlato:
si nun suone te rompo la capa.
Sona sona zampugnella
ca t'accatto la gonnella,
la gonnella de scarlato:
si nun suone te rompo la capa.
Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole,
Nun chiovere
nun chiovere
ca aggia ire a movere
a movere lu grano
de masto Giuliano.
Masto Giuliano
manname 'na lanza
ca aggia ire in Franza
da Franza a Lombardia
dove stà madama Lucia.
Nun chiovere,
nun chiovere,nun chiovere,
jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole,

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Happy Holidays All

Full Moon November 19, 2010

 

Raindrops to Chemtrails (É O Que Me Interessa)

Chemtrails excerpt from Wikipedia:

The term chemtrail is derived from "chemical trail" in the similar fashion that contrail is an abbreviation for condensation trail. The term specifically refers to aerial trails allegedly caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of supposedly uncharacteristic sky tracks. Believers of this theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be for global dimming, population control, weather control, or biowarfare and claim that these trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

music:

É O Que Me Interessa by Lenine

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la manipulación de las nubes

la manipulación de las nubes
(primavera 2010)

Hay algo extraño que pasa en nuestros cielos.

Muchos de nosotros nos preguntamos lo que está pasando.

Cualquier día soleado perfectamente azul, nos cuenta regularmente de que ciertas aeronaves parecen estar expulsando extraordinariamente los vapores de condensación.

Los aviones también parecen volar fuera de la normalidad, de las trayectorias de vuelo comercial.

Ellos cruzan el cielo y las nubes para aumentar la creación de formaciones de nubes extrañas.

Aunque apreciamos las gloriosas puestas de sol, todavía nos preguntamos por qué.

No hay cobertura de los medios de información principales de este fenómeno interesante y importante.

¿Posiblemente podría ser relacionadas con el cambio climático?

¿Geo-Ingeniería?

Geo-Ingeniería se define como la modificación artificial de los sistemas climáticos de la planeta.

Algunos líderes mundiales han dado a los científicos la luz verde para experimentar sobre la modificación del clima global. Pulverización de aerosoles globales es sólo uno de los regímenes.

Un rato más tarde, el cielo parece haber cambiado un poco.

Nos dirigimos al oeste de la ciudad y mientras manejamos por las colinas Watchung de Nueva Jersey. Se nos presenta a un cielo extrañamente convincente.

• El ejército de EE.UU. ha declarado abiertamente su intención de "LA PROPIA CLIMA" para el año 2025.

• físicos atmosféricos indican que un vapor natural sendero (un sendero de vapor natural?)
puede durar sólo 60-90 segundos como máximo, en las condiciones más extremas.

• Los científicos alemanes y los meteorólogos han expuesto y tomado acción jurídica
contra el gobierno alemán para la manipulación del tiempo y la falsificación de imágenes satelitares y de radar para enmascarar el alcance de esas las operaciones.

• La última prueba de lluvia tomadas (Condado de Shasta, California) en mayo del '08 estaba a cientos de veces (sobre el rango de "normal" para el aluminio y siete veces el MCL (Nivel máximo de contaminantes).

• Grupos de ciudadanos preocupados se han formado en toda la población los principales centros oeste de los EE.UU. con similares resultados de pruebas!

Las principales ciudades de países de la OTAN están viendo la agitación popular y una demanda de la verdad. Aluminio, bario y otros agentes conocidos por modificación del clima se están encontrando en todo el mundo a niveles terribles.

• Según el Centro Nacional de Investigación Atmosférica, la única manera
para formar las nubes artificiales en el aire tibio y seco, es suficiente para introducir las partículas en la atmósfera para atraer y juntar a toda la humedad disponible en el vapor.

Si se repite lo suficiente, la bruma que resulta carente de lluvia puede ocasionar sequías.

El cielo del este de Pensilvania se ha transformado en una intensa rayada, panorama nublado. Hemos recorrido aproximadamente 80 millas al oeste ...

He presentado estas observaciones y la información relacionada como un servicio público. Me parece que el cambio de clima en esta forma podía provocar
consecuencias potencialmente peligrosas para nuestro medio ambiente y para todas las formas de vida en este planeta.


Dejen de pulverizar sobre nosotros!

Tama Waipara - Triumph of Time

Triumph of Time by Tama Waipara mixed with video from Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley which is licensed under Creative Commons attribution.

Tama Waipara is a person deeply attached to his roots. Triumph Of Time, his debut album, plays heavily with the vibrant rhythms associated with his Maori heritage since he is an indigenous New Zealander. Though he is now a New York transplant, Tama's music still reflects the earthy sound he grew up with, layering modern poetry on top of the beats. The album's first single "Felise" has been heard around the world via two exciting remixes from Chris Brann (of Ananda Project, Wamdue and P'Taah) and Freaks. A true musician in every sense of the word, Tama is creating a unique sound by blending musical tradition with organic new music.
Released By ObliqSound - May 2004

Nina Paley states:

I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. From the shared culture it came, and back into the shared culture it goes.

You don't need my permission to copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues. Conventional wisdom urges me to demand payment for every use of the film, but then how would people without money get to see it? How widely would the film be disseminated if it were limited by permission and fees? Control offers a false sense of security. The only real security I have is trusting you, trusting culture, and trusting freedom.

sundust (pulviscolo solare)

sundust (pulviscolo solare)

@gerardcruz 2009

music:

cañas! & jahvy

i remember watching sundust for extended periods as a child.

Superhéroes de Barrio - Exit Music (for a dub)

a slideshow of some of my drawings created between 1999 to 2009 with musical accompaniment.

Seis Horas Da Tarde Album Version - Milton Nascimento

by Milton Nascimento from the album, Angelus along with pictures of the back yard flora. I always find serenity in Miltons music.

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Almamegretta - What have you done (BP)

The ecological devastation continues with no solution from oil giant BP. Relief wells take months to drill and the Dome, Top Kill and Junk Shot procedures have not produced any favorable results. In addition, contamination from toxic oil-dispersant chemicals add to this environmental horror.
Pray they resolve this soon, at worst prior to hurricane season!

video: raw clip mix
music: Almamegretta
title: What Have You Done?
Album: Vulgus

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The Third Planet - Zardasht

The Third Planet isn't just a music experience but also one with individuals coming from different cultures and working together to reach an objective.
As Smail, our Algerian singer, put it, our cultures are different, but the work is one. Work is indeed the truely noble activity through which the universal nature of man can be revealed. And there's a form of work that has preserved its dignity along the centuries and is becoming extremely relevant again: the craft workshop.
The Third Planet is a craft workshop,like those of the Florentine Renaissance where artists from all over the world converge to develop projects together, feeding into them the wealth of their original cultures.Now that ethnic rivalries - never subdued but simply stifled by ideologies and dictatorships - are dramatically breaking up again, the Third Planet is there to proove that the dialogue among different cultures is not only possible but indeed indispensable in artistic work. as well as in everyday life. From time immemorial this dialogue has favoured innovative creation; and offered traditions the fresh sap for their renovation and development.
At the beginning of our collaboration , we would define ourselves as a "multi-ethnic group"; later on, due to the growing trend of associating "ethnic" to such terms as "war", "minority" and finally the awful "cleansing" , we preferred to call ourselves a "multicultural band", though we are not totally happy with this definition either. As a matter of fact, in our workshop, we do not simply put together pieces of different cultures but we have the ambition of contributing to the birth of a new kind of culture, originating from the free and easy use of art forms and art styles, unbiased and unclassified but appreciated for their crucial contribution to the creative process.
"Style" is probably the only aspect of cultures we are interested in and consider worth preserving. Life-style, in the first place, that is work-, art-, music-, food-, language- , writing- and , why not, fashion-style too.
The rest of what we call culture is of little interest to us as it appears to be nothing but an endless variation over the same theme, exploited by the powerful to divide people and make them fight against one another .
We believe that cultural differences must be respected and valorised, not merely accepted.
There's no respect in mere acceptance: " Yes, I accept you because you're different from me and there's nothing I can do about it, I live next to you but I don't care about you etc. " Respect is something different:" Yes, I respect your culture and that's precisely why I feel entitled to criticize it and discuss those aspects I do not agree with. I pick some elements from your culture to enrich mine and offer some of mine to you as a gift."
Nothing new can be born out of acceptance that indeed risks to generate new conflicts. Respect is our hope for a better world.

Like in scientific labs, where researchers of different origins, ethnic groups and cultures peacefully work together, in our workshop we try out new languages of music, by making different styles interact. In doing so,day after day, our " cultural differences" become less and less relevant while our individual styles as artists emerge and unfold providing us with a great and really multi-cultural wealth to share.

sky and garden

The sky and garden on July 19, 2010, in Subset Park, Brooklyn. I extend a greeting of peace to all.

Fire Dance

Nuova Compagnia di Canto Poplare - Jesce Sole

Nuova Compagnia di Canto Poplare - Jesce Sole

Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole.
Ciento cinquanta
tutta la notte canta
canta Viola, lu masto de scola.
Masto masto,
mannancenne priesto
ca scenne masto Tieste
cu' lanza e cu' spada
cu l'auciello accumpagnato.
Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole.
Sona sona zampugnella
ca t'accatto la gonnella,
la gonnella de scarlato:
si nun suone te rompo la capa.
Sona sona zampugnella
ca t'accatto la gonnella,
la gonnella de scarlato:
si nun suone te rompo la capa.
Jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole,
Nun chiovere
nun chiovere
ca aggia ire a movere
a movere lu grano
de masto Giuliano.
Masto Giuliano
manname 'na lanza
ca aggia ire in Franza
da Franza a Lombardia
dove stà madama Lucia.
Nun chiovere,
nun chiovere,nun chiovere,
jesce, jesce sole,
scagliente 'mperatore,
scanniello mio d'argiento
ca vale quattuciento.
Jesce, jesce sole,

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Malidoma`s Dub (subtitled)

It seems as if we're entering into an era in which without the intervention of the old, without the intervention of that which is considered ancient, we run the risk of bumping into irrecoverable catastrophe. There comes time when the word "modern" has very little power and we have to wonder how much of the old we still need to forget before it's too late.

In the village, it is understood that any kind of challenge that we face in the now, is connected with a power source that once was one pillar of your own power, that you made a contract with, you made a deal with. Basically saying that, I'm going to cross over to this dimension where, in order to exist there, I have to carry a physical body but I've heard rumors there are problems associated with having a body and those rumors are not all good and I'm worried about the ones that are not good. Namely that, you forget what the source of your true power is.

I am coming into this world because I have a gift, a gift of healing to bring, but in order for me to deliver that gift, I need these sources of power to keep my back protected. The energy that we have inside of us to dispense, or to administer, is proportional to the amount of energy we take to deliver the gift that we brought with us into this world.

So if some of that energy, as it is unfortunately seeming like it's the case; if most of that energy is invested in fighting against adversity, wrestling with challenges, eventually, by the time the challenges are through with you, the energy indicator would look really low and the gift is still sitting there waiting to be delivered.

Malidoma Patrice Somé

sound @ liv wheeler
video @ jen cohen
subtitles @ gerard cruz

Recital: Linton Kwesi Johnson - If I Woz A Tap Natch Poet (subtitled)

If I Waz a Tap Natch Poet
Linton Kwesi Johnson

if I woz a tap-natch poet
like Chris Okigbo
Derek Walcott
ar T.S.Eliott

ah woodah write a poem
soh dam deep
dat it bittah-sweet
like a precious
memory
whe mek yu weep
whe mek yu feel incomplete

like wen yu lovah leave
an dow defeat yu kanseed
still yu beg an yu plead
till yu win a repreve
an yu ready fi rack steady
but di muzik done aready

still
inna di meantime
wid mi riddim
wid mi rime
wid mi ruff bass line
wid mi own sense a time

goon poet haffi step in line
caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan
but Mandela fi im
touzans an touzans an touzans an touzans

if I woz a tap-natch poet
like Kamau Brathwaite
Martin Carter
Jayne Cortez ar Amiri Baraka

ah woodah write a poem
soh rude
an rootsy
an subversive
dat it mek di goon poet
tun white wid envy

like a candhumble/ voodoo/ kumina chant
a ole time calypso ar a slave song
dat get ban
but fram granny

rite dung to gran pickney
each an evry wan
can recite dat-dey wan

still
inna di meantime
wid mi riddim
wid mi rime
wid mi ruff bass line
wid mi own sense a time

goon poet haffi step in line
caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan
but Mandela fi im
touzans an touzans an touzans an touzans

if I woz a tap-natch poet
like Tchikaya U'tamsi
Nicholas Guillen
ar Lorna Goodison

an woodah write a poem
soh beautiful dat it simple
like a plain girl
wid good brains
an nice ways
wid a sexy dispozishan
an plenty compahshan
wid a sweet smile
an a suttle style

still
mi naw goh bow an scrape
an gwan like a ape
peddlin noh puerile parchment af etnicity
wid ongle a vaig fleetin hint af hawtenticity
like a black Lance Percival in reverse
ar even worse
a babblin bafoon whe looze im tongue

no sah
nat atall
mi gat mi riddim
mi gat mi rime
mi gat mi ruff bass line
mi gat mi own sense a time

goon poet bettah step in line
caw Bootahlazy mite a gat couple touzan
but Mandela fi im
touzans an touzans an touzans an touzans

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Super Harvest Moon

Sept. 22, 2010: For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for a "Super Harvest Moon" and a must-see sky show to mark the change of seasons.

The action begins at sunset on Sept 22nd, the last day of northern summer. As the sun sinks in the west, bringing the season to a close, the full Harvest Moon will rise in the east, heralding the start of fall. The two sources of light will mix together to create a kind of 360-degree, summer-autumn twilight glow that is only seen on rare occasions.

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Welcome to NYC

This video was shot in downtown Manhattan, (Chinatown) while waiting for family to return from shopping. It is more convenient to public transportation as street parking, even on a Sunday, is extremely difficult to find these days and the DOT tow trucks wait like crocodiles.

Manhattan makes it very difficult for private vehicles. It wasnt so bad on a Sunday back in the day. Luckily, we live in Brooklyn and rarely use a car except for local shopping and as our escape module.

Subway Ride

Subway Ride

Sub·way a. An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
London calls it the Underground.
In Paris, le Metro.
In New York City it`s called the Train or Subway.
Let`s take a short trip from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Yes, you can take the subway over a bridge.
Brooklyn
The East River
Manhattan



music: Contusion by Stevie Wonder
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LKJ vs. King Jammy - If I Woz A Top Natch Poet dub

spraying all night long...

Video Thumb
cloud manipulation [HQ]
6:58 Added last Monday
There is something strange happening in our skies.
Many of us wonder what is going on.
On any perfectly blue sunny day we regularly notice that certain aircraft seem to
be ejecting extraordinarily long condensation trails and appear to fly outside the normal commercial flight paths.
Although we appreciate the glorious sunsets, we still wonder why there is no major media coverage of this interesting and important phenomenon.

Could it possibly be related to climate change?

Geo-Engineering is defined as the artificial modification of Earth's climate systems.
Geo-Engineering projects range from DECLASSIFIED experimentation (like iron particles being dumped into the oceans to attract algae, which sequesters carbon and, theoretically, slows global warming)

to


HIGHLY CLASSIFIED experimentation like AEROSOL SPRAYING (chemical spraying).


According to geoengineeringwatch.org:

World leaders have given scientists the green light to experiment with global climate modification. Planetary aerosol spraying is just one of the schemes...

• The US military has openly stated that it is their goal to OWN THE
WEATHER by 2025

• Atmospheric physicists state that a naturally occuring vapor trail
can last only 60-90 seconds maximum, under the most extreme conditions.

• German scientists and meteorologists have exposed and are taking legal
action against the German government for weather manipulation and
counterfeiting satellite and radar imagery to mask the scope of those
operations.

• The last RAIN TEST taken (Shasta County, CA) in May of 08 was hundreds of times the range of normal for aluminum and seven times the MCL
(maximum contaminant level).

• Concerned Citizen groups have formed in all major western US population
centers with SIMILAR TESTING RESULTS! Major cities throughout
the NATO nations are seeing public unrest and a demand for truth.
Aluminum, Barium and other known weather modification agents are being
found world-wide at horrifying levels.

• According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the only way
to form artificial clouds in warm dry air is to introduce enough particulates into the atmosphere to attract and accrete all available moisture into visible vapor. If repeated often enough, the resulting rainless haze can lead to drought.

If the previous statements are even partially true, it is scientific experimentation and arrogance with potential disastrous effects to our atmosphere and all forms of life on this planet.

Stop spraying us!

* condensation trails ×
* chemtrails ×
* geo-engineering ×
* climate manipulation ×

a reality check

ramdom post - ice bubbles

we can cleanly fly the sky

raindrops to chemtrails [HD]
by Gerard Cruz (videos)
4:05
music:

É O Que Me Interessa by Lenine

Chemtrails excerpt from Wikipedia:

The term chemtrail is derived from "chemical trail" in the similar fashion that contrail is an abbreviation for condensation trail. The term specifically refers to aerial trails allegedly caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of supposedly uncharacteristic sky tracks. Believers of this theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be for global dimming, population control, weather control, or biowarfare and claim that these trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

happy 2010 to one and all

best wishes of peace and love to one and all.